This past Monday, I started a blog series titled My 5 Favorite Fictional Princesses. A couple days ago, Part 2 of that series was posted and it threw some people off. Then, yesterday, when I wasn't supposed to be blogging, Nintendo finally released the Wii U release date and pricing announcements, so I had to comment on that, especially since my reaction to the Wii news 6 years ago wasn't pretty. What wasn't pretty though was the lack of comments on there and let me tell you, even today I'm still pissed off about it.

Why didn't anybody comment on there with the exception of one idiotic comment? Was it because the blog was 20 minutes long? Was it because other people posted their opinions before mine, so the readers couldn't comment on my blog because they're sick of repeating themselves? Or could it be the curse of asking people for their opinions on the comment section?

Yeah, the one thing I've noticed with my blogs is that every time I ask people for their opinion on whatever I'm blogging about, THEY DON'T RESPOND!! I don't know what the deal is, but from now on, I'll quit asking people for their opinions about my opinion because for some apparent reason, it scares them; at least that's what I want to believe. But if you feel like making me feel better by commenting on yesterday's blog, it's not too late to do so; you can go to this page and comment away if you please! Otherwise, check here and here for Part 1 and Part 2 respectively if you've missed them!

In case you want to be spoiled and/or be recapped, #5 was Princess Midna, #4 was Princess Zelda, #3 was Xena Warrior Princess and #2 was Princess Fiona. So who could that number 1 be? Well, I think you guys have figured it out before I went to number 5. As a matter of fact, I took pics with number 1 at comic conventions more than the others on this list (except for Midna since nobody dressed like her in either comic cons I’ve attended this year.) That someone is…

1. PRINCESS LEIA

What a badass princess!

For years, I’ve heard people talking about Star Wars. For years, I’ve seen references to Star Wars and I’ve seen pictures of Star Wars. I’ve heard so much about Star Wars, I felt like I’ve seen the whole trilogy despite the fact that I’d never seen the trilogy. Out of respect for Star Wars fans, I did not see the prequel trilogy and I don’t think I ever will see them. Also, out of respect for Star Wars fans, I saw Star Wars Revisited instead of watching the rereleases of Star Wars Episode I (later changed to Episode IV A New Hope). Before I talk about Princess Leia, I’ve got to talk about the controversial Han Shoots First incident.

So, George Lucas decided to do something stupid (and never rectify no matter how many Star Wars fans he’s pissed off) and have Greedo shoot first instead of Han Solo in the rereleases of Star Wars. In the original, Han never gave Greedo a shot to shoot because he shot Greedo. On the 1997 rerelease, Greedo shot first, missing at close range wide to the right and then Han would shoot Greedo. This pissed off Star Wars fans because it didn’t make any sense whatsoever. To fix that mistake, on the 2004 rerelease, Greedo and Han shot at nearly the same time, but with the same result: Greedo shoots first, but dies and Han’s still alive. Don’t bother getting the Blu-Ray rerelease because it contains the same result from the 2004 rerelease.

What did I think about that? Well, I’ll have to agree that Han shooting second is a contradictory of Han Solo’s character. Han had always been a bad ass and in the first movie, he literally went by the motto shoot first, ask questions later. Wait, what was that first part again? Shoot first? Han Solo goes by shoot first and yet didn’t shoot first? What the hell was George Lucas thinking! Are you telling me that fans know Han Solo more than the person who created him? That’s messed up I tell you!

Now that I got that out of the way, let’s finally talk about Princess Leia. When we first see her, she gets kidnapped by her “father” and that’s because she was pretty much surrounded and had nowhere else to go. She saw her kidnapping happening beforehand and sent a message to Ben “Obi-Wan” Kenobi (that name doesn’t produce a spelling error on Microsoft Word but Leia does? Blasphemy!) asking him to rescue her. Since Obi-Wan was pretty much too old to save Leia from Darth Vader and the Empire, he had to send in Luke Skywalker to do the job for him despite the fact that he didn’t want Luke to follow in the same footsteps as his father.

With the help of Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2D2, Leia was set free. Ever since then, you can pretty much throw the Princess title out the window because she’s nothing like a princess at all. She creates an escape route for her, Luke, Chewie and Han by blasting a laser at a hole and she’s been doing a lot of fighting as well.

On Episode II (or V rather thanks to the prequels’ existence) Return of the Empire, she appears to continue her previous job as a leader of a resistance group and even both Han and Luke are following her orders. She and Han were starting to get on each others’ nerves, but as we all know from these type of stories, it ends up with those two falling in love with each other. I think the reason for this is because Carrie Fisher, the woman who played Princess Leia, wanted to play Han Solo despite the fact that she knew that the role was for a man. This might also explain why she’s been involved in more action than any other female on this list besides Xena.

I wish I could say that Leia didn’t get captured again, but unfortunately, Han’s friend Lando Calrissian (played by Billy Dee Williams) sent her, Han and the droids over to Darth Vader; Luke wasn’t there because he was too busy training with Yoda in Dagobah. It was there when she confessed her love to Han (I know) before he was frozen and sent back to Tatooine to Jabba the Hutt. She escaped when Lando had a change of heart and with his help, she was able to free Chewbacca and the droids and then later on, her “brother.”

With Episode III (or VI thanks to the existence of the prequels) Return of the Jedi, this was the main reason why I have Princess Leia at number 1. She tried to rescue Han from Jabba the Hutt, but she ended up getting captured again. Her clothes were changed to the lovely slave outfit...

Cat calls ever since!

...but this was all a part of a plan to get Han out. You could even tell by her expressions that she wasn’t worried about her situation and you could tell she knew how to get out of the situation. Han couldn’t see at first because he’d been frozen for a little too long, but was slowly able to regain his senses and fight back along with Luke.

Since Leia was chained to Jabba the Hutt, there was no way she could help those guys out without breaking the chain. Jabba wasn’t going to make it easy, so she had to improvise. If you hadn’t seen Return of the Jedi, you would assume that Luke or Han killed Jabba the Hutt, but you’d be wrong; it was Leia herself who killed Jabba the Hutt. How did she kill him? With his own chain! She managed to wrap that chain around his neck and choked him until he died. It was at that moment that she was my favorite princess. You can see that scene right here and see for yourself!

Leia’s done some more stuff in this movie that’ll make you forget the fact that she is a princess, but I don’t need to mention them because she killed Jabba the Hutt. Maybe if I had watched the Xena Warrior Princess marathon, she would be number 1 instead of number 2, but until that happens, I don’t know any other princess who would be willing to kill in the name of good as well as Princess Leia. Now I’ll have to show some more respect to Princess Leia cosplayers!

Speaking of cosplays, you can probably never go to a comic convention (or any convention for that matter) without seeing some storm troopers and without seeing Slave Leias. After watching Return of the Jedi, I can now see why Slave Leia costumes are so popular. I can ignore this video asking women to quit cosplaying as Slave Leia (I know it’s a joke video) and take pictures of every Slave Leia I see at the next comic convention, which is a little more than 7 months away. Why must I wait that long?

So those were my top 5 princesses. Once again, this was not an easy list to make other than Princess Leia being number 1, but I hope you've enjoyed this overall series. What will I talk about next week? I have no idea. What I will do in the meantime is continue getting trophies for Mortal Kombat. See you again some other time!